“Narrating Global Emerging Issues with Complexity-Inspired Installations” presented by Liu

Symposium:

• ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Art Science (short papers)

• Narrating Global Emerging Issues with Complexity-Inspired Installations

• Speculative practices

• Ivan Chen-Hsiu Liu

Venue(s):

• Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia

• The global emerging issues including those targeted by the United Nation in the 2030 Agenda has a pervasive impact on the whole humanity and the ecosystem. These issues share common features inherent in complex systems. In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to raise the public awareness of the global emerging issues with complexity-inspired new media installations. These installations are derived from scientific models in the domain of complex science, manifesting self-organized criticality. We demonstrate how they can be used to narrate issues related to food-insecurity caused by climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and human-induced seismicity. Furthermore, a brief discussion is provided regarding the merits associated with employing such systems for storytelling.

Keywords:

• practice-based research
• art and science
• earthquake
• new media art
• Sound installation
• interactive art
• human-computer interaction
• Anthropocene
• Climate Change

Category:

• Short Paper